Our pastor
Meet Pastor Paul
Proud to be A.L.A. and grateful to be ‘Baptholic,’ Pastor Paul I. Kim is a World Class Stationery Bike Rider, married to Jaimy for over 30 years, and a proud father of 3 daughters. He loves to read, hike, cook, and chat with Friends.
As an intentional Texan, Pastor Paul Kim dreams to make Forest Community Church a home for people who are serious about God’s love in Christ and love to obey Christ’s Great Commandment and Great Commission.
Bio
Pastor Paul’s life can be summed up with the 3 Ms:
Miracle of God’s Mercy
Pastor Paul grew up as devout Buddhist and planned to be a monk after his retirement. He also had strong antagonistic sentiments toward Christianity and did not have a good impression of the church when he first participated in a church youth group. Against all odds, he received Christ in his heart at the age of seventeen after two years of a spiritual tug-of-war with god. He thought that he would be the last person to become a Christian and certainly the least qualified to be pastor of God’s church. Now, he is an example of God’s double miracle or miracle of double mercy.
Multi-Cultural & Multi-Ethnic experience of life
Pastor Paul was born in Seoul, South Korea but grew up in Argentina and Venezuela. He is not a typical Asian-American and calls himself “A.L.A. (Asian-Latino-American)”. He lived in Los Angeles and the Bay Area for 18 years and then in Princeton, NJ for 3 years before moving to Texas in 2002. Pastor Paul believes that his confused trilingual and marginalized immigrant life experience has opened his eyes to appreciate different people from diverse backgrounds. Calling himself an “A.L.A. mutt,” he is not ashamed of his lack of mono-cultural and mono-ethnic center.
Mission
Pastor Paul came to Texas initially to finish his graduate theological studies and moved to Dallas to teach at Dallas Baptist University after his Ph. D. Slowly but surely, he recognized God’s call to make DFW his permanent home and last stand for God’s work in his life. He believes that he is not an accidentally transplanted resident of the Lone Star state, but a providentially guided agent of God’s kingdom in the buckle of the Bible belt.
Bio
Biola University
B.A. History
Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
Master of Divinity
Princeton Theological Seminary
Master of Theology
Baylor University
Ph.D. in Theology
Contact Pastor Paul
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